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What do you like best about Sardine?

Sardine is an incredible solution. It is truly a world class fraud platform addressing every channel and need, delivering the capabilities only previously available to large companies with dedicated risk engineering teams. With a small team and Sardine fully implemented across our onboarding, money movement, and account security we are able to monitor, thwart, and adapt to fraud in real-time with a single analyst. We have been a Sardine client for years and were an early adopter. Even when they were a small team and starting out, the functionality, support, and innovatios was second to none and exceeded the support and capabilities or our larger and more well know providers in the space. We soon replaced our established partner with Sardine and completed the full implementation in a matter of weeks with only two engineers. They have been the easiest partner to integrate with even with their solution integrated through ever aspect of our app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sardine?

There isn't anything we dislike about Sardine. From the functionality and experience to their executive team, they have always prioritized every client's success. They are the only vendor we do not have any complaints about or difficulties with, and we judge all other vendors by the quality of the product and service and ease of integration we receive from Sardine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sardine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sardine serves as our holistic fraud and compliance solution. We use it for onboarding (KYC/BSA and fraud), AML, ACH and wire transfer screening, account profile updates, device analysis at login, OFAC screening, case management, and card fraud monitoring. The product offers top-tier solutions for each channel and provides the ability to view and monitor client and account activity holistically and use data across channels to better inform decisioning in real-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Sardine?

Sardine is an AI-powered fraud detection and compliance platform designed to empower financial institutions, fintech companies, online marketplaces, and e-commerce platforms in their fight against fraud while ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements. This solution leverages real-time artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze behavioral and transactional data, providing actionable insights that address a wide range of risks, including payment fraud, identity theft, account takeovers, mule accounts, and social engineering scams. As fraud tactics continue to evolve in sophistication, Sardine adapts by continuously learning from emerging fraud patterns. This capability allows the platform to deliver accurate detection and prevention strategies tailored to the unique challenges faced by modern businesses. By focusing on real-time analytics, Sardine enables organizations to respond promptly to potential threats, thereby enhancing their overall security posture. Key features of Sardine include Behavioral Biometrics and Device Intelligence, which detect anomalies such as unusual mouse movements or rapid typing patterns. This feature helps predict the likelihood of fraudulent activities in real-time, allowing businesses to flag suspicious actions before they escalate. Additionally, the platform offers Advanced Risk Scoring, which provides precise and adaptive fraud detection through dynamic risk scores that adjust based on evolving threats, ensuring that organizations remain vigilant against new fraud strategies. Sardine also emphasizes seamless integration with existing systems through APIs, simplifying the implementation process while enhancing fraud prevention capabilities. The platform includes Regulatory Compliance Tools that help identify mule accounts, scam indicators, and anomalous transactions, thereby assisting businesses in meeting Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), and Know Your Business (KYB) regulations. Furthermore, the AI-Powered Automation feature significantly reduces false positives and streamlines the analysis of KYC and sanctions alerts. By automating up to 75% of case resolutions, Sardine allows compliance teams to concentrate on critical cases, improving operational efficiency and scalability. Targeting fraud and risk professionals, compliance teams, and product managers, Sardine provides a scalable and reliable solution to secure businesses against fraud. By combining real-time insights with advanced technology, the platform empowers organizations to stay ahead of fraudsters, maintain customer trust, and support sustainable growth in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

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Sardine as a Service is tuned for Crypto, Fintech, and eCommerce Merchants.


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Sardine
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2020
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San Francisco, US
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@sardine
4,410 Twitter followers
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162 employees on LinkedIn®
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Sardine is a technology company that specializes in providing advanced tools for fraud detection and prevention in the fintech industry. Their platform leverages AI and machine learning to help businesses identify and mitigate fraudulent activities in real-time, ensuring secure transactions and protecting user data. Through their innovative solutions, Sardine aims to enhance the overall security and trustworthiness of digital financial services. For more information, visit their website at https://sardine.ai.


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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best Fraud Tool Out There"
Sardine is by far the most useful fraud tool I have ever used. With just one click on a user profile, I can see everything I need to know about a u...
JG
Jack G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Easy to implement and great engine for data gathering"
It is super easy to implement and set up rules like mad libs essentially and get the alerts you want to see on searches of their data sources.
Carlos M.
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Carlos M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great tool for fraud mitigation"
It's a powerful tool with features that allow you to risk-assess everything from phone numbers to devices to biometrics. The rule engine is compreh...
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Sardine Demo - Sardine Rule Management
Sardine’s advanced rule management capabilities allow merchants to configure rules through a visual builder or granularly via code.
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Sardine’s advanced network graph allows investigators to identify and take action on networks of fraud rings through an easy to use infinite canvas.
Sardine Demo - Sardine Advanced Analytics
Sardine’s advanced analytics feature allows merchants to analyze and drill down into key performance indicators measuring efficiency, accuracy, and program risk.
Sardine Demo - Sardine Entity Intelligence
Sardine’s entity intelligence feature allow merchants to drill down into customers, devices, transactions, and sessions specific detail pages.

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Carlos M.
CM
Fraud Risk Manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Sardine?

It's a powerful tool with features that allow you to risk-assess everything from phone numbers to devices to biometrics. The rule engine is comprehensive, allowing you to get down to the essential details for those pesky trends.

Integration is relatively straightforward through the SDK and API calls, and our Account Manager (a shoutout to Rob) and the support team are incredibly helpful and responsive when we have queries.

If you have any particular issues with a trend or rule, the team is happy to take the sessions and analyse/suggest some rules which might help, which is super helpful.

Lots of potential for further development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sardine?

The downside is that new staff seem to struggle with it. Although they can become very proficient once they're used to it, the road to proficiency is long and arduous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sardine solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a crypto merchant, we constantly consider how to protect the markets from fraud and abuse, and Sardine helps us achieve this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zev G.
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Principal Product Manager - Fintech Product Owner - Technologist
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sardine?

Beyond the product itself, which is fantastic, the entire Sardine team supports you and your individual use cases to incorporate your transaction and onboarding flows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sardine?

I wouldn’t necessarily call it a negative, but one area for improvement would be incorporating AI-driven insights beyond just policies or templates. It would be valuable to have an intelligence layer that identifies transaction patterns and provides proactive suggestions or warnings based on learned behaviors. Over time, as more transactions are processed, the system could tailor insights to our specific transaction types and customer base, enhancing fraud detection and risk assessment.

Additionally, if I could, I would like to have a slightly better integration with plaid identity verification so that we don't have to add the results as custom fields. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sardine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sardine allows us to in a single pain of Glass be able to on board, score, and monitor transactions of various types for all of our banking workflows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aishia H.
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Risk Operations Analyst
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Sardine?

Sardine is user friendly and it's easy to make changes if needed. The team is extremely helpful if you need a little extra help and they provide updates about changes. I use Sardine daily and multiple times throughout the day. I love that you're able to back test rules and easily build upon established rules. You can be as specific as you'd like! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sardine?

This isn't necessarily a dislike, but an extra step for me is the date filter. We have used Sardine for longer than 1 year and sometimes need to search beyond that. As time goes on we have to go further back. Which is actually a great thing too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sardine solving and how is that benefiting you?

The goal for using Sardine is to catch fraudsters before they fully onboard. We also use Sardine to gather trends that fraudsters use. For example, we found that the fraudsters use Android devices the most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment
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What do you like best about Sardine?

Sardine is by far the most useful fraud tool I have ever used. With just one click on a user profile, I can see everything I need to know about a user. I use it every day multiple times a day, and would have a much harder time doing my job without the use of Sardine. Their customer service representatives are also top notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sardine?

Sardine is always evolving to keep up with the change in fraud detection. It is definitely important to stay up to date on what is new to make sure you are getting full use of the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sardine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sardine helps facilitate everything about a user that helps me know if they are a good actor or bad actor. For example, I can know how many credit cards a user added to their account in a specific time frame to see if they are credit card testing or not. Sardine also notifies me immediately about any users who are attempting to sign in from any OFAC countries. Sardine also provides a risk score (low, medium, high, very-high) that helps determine the risk a customer could bring to the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sardine?

As the product owner of a newly launched neobank, fraud and compliance was top of mind during the initial launch. We were looking for a tool that not only handled case management, but also behavioral biometrics and velocity rule writing. Sardine has been a tool where we have been able to integrate ID&V, selfie and other signals as part of our fraud and risk mitigation requirements. Being able to expand on some existing out of the box rules has also helped us get up and running faster than ever. Having a dedicated contact point in slack has also been crucial when questions come up. As fruaud never sleeps, you'll find yourself living in the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sardine?

As fraud is a complex situation, going down a rabbit hole with many different signals could at times be a challenge to follow the endpoints. Being someone that wants more than just a risk score but the reasons behind score, display all the information in multiple tabs is a challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sardine solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Sardine for our onboarding and transaction monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christina S.
CS
Operations &amp; Compliance Specialist
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Sardine?

Communication is easy with quick turnaround on responses, even on more complicated inquiries. Our account manager is organized, efficient, and stays on top of our needs. There is no hesitation to bring in a tech or specialist in any area if she doesn't have the answer for us. She always ensures that our time is used productively. Getting the most out of our contract felt like a priority to our account manager and it was easy to implement new features we hadn't started with at first. We're a small start-up but Sardine always made us feel like we mattered to them! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sardine?

Some of the language used in rules and certain parameters is hard to understand. It can be a little challenging to understand what the metric is, but when that occurs we are always able to send a quick question over or set up a meeting for more in-depth explanation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sardine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sardine has helped us weed out bad actors from onboarding. We feel strongly that their KYC process is highly effective in helping us maintain quality onboarders. The KYC parameters are also very easy to adjust when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sardine?

Truthfully, the most helpful aspect of Sardine is our Product Support Rep Rob Schaefer! Without Rob's assistance and advice, we would be pretty lost. He is also super knowledgeable from a dev perspective along with a customer/user focus and this greatly helps with implementing Sardine throughout our platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sardine?

The only downside of Sardine in my opinion is that it can be a bit overwhelming and somewhat crowded with signals. As a new user or novice fraud analyst, Sardine does have a large learning curve and providing a tutorial or walkthroughs geared towards someone without an engineering background would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sardine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sardine is helping us sus out malicious actors, users being scammed, users violating our terms of use, and users potentially violating AML regulations. We benefit from Sardine in numerous ways, most importantly being able to flag users/accounts and block them from completeing additional transactions that we want to investigate or avoid from being completed. Sardine also helps us identify potential account takeovers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JG
SVP, Head of PMO
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sardine?

It is super easy to implement and set up rules like mad libs essentially and get the alerts you want to see on searches of their data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sardine?

I see no downsides so far - the team is great and the system is easy to set up and use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sardine solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are launching new products that we want to ensure have the best prescreening for customers and Sardine offers the best options in the market for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Sardine?

Th fast dashboard that Sardine provides.

Features developed to review if a customer if fraudulent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sardine?

The device id is not precise when trying to track the device history in the customer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sardine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sardine is solving fraud detection in customers that have being suffer Identity theft and has provide with features to track users and conecting collusion fraud rings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
EF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Sardine?

As one of their earlier customers, we were privileged to witness firsthand the rapid release and enhancement of their platform. The pace at which Sardine rolled out new features was nothing short of impressive, within months of starting the engagement they had transitioned from a new entrant to a genuine threat to the incumbents, providing the core neccesities required to manage a high quality Trust, Safety and Fraud Management program and then innoviating beyond the industry standard.

Beyond a standard plug-and-play Sardine ventured into areas that other market players had either overlooked or failed to execute well on, including vast third party integrations that really helped bridge the onboarding experience across both fraud prevention and compliance/kyc onboarding.

Most importantly, the expertise within the team was key to our success, whether it was the dedication to supporting us in a difficult timezone without any challenges or the knowledge we were able to absorb and put into actionable fraud detection strategies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sardine?

In our experience, challenges were rare. We had minor teething problems when the product was in its infancy, but the Sardine team was remarkably swift and proactive in addressing them or providing work arounds (even if they were just minor aesthic feedback that we had no expections to be resolved, the team executed). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sardine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Account take over, payment fraud prevention, affiliate related abuse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.